Improved cotton-seed planter



J. F. ()RR.

Cotton-Planter.

Patented Feb. 3, 1857 UNrrEn STATES ATENT Grate-E.

JAMES F. ORR, OF ORRVILLE, ALABAMA.

IMPROVED COTTON-SEED PLANTER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. [6,550, dated February 3, 1857.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES F. ORR, ot' Orrville, in the county of Dallas and State of Alabama, have invented a new and Improved Gotton-Seed Planter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being hadto the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

My invention consists in the peculiar means employed for distributing the seed and regulating the discharge thereof from the hopper, and also in a peculiar mode of hanging the hopper or attaching it to the frame of the machine, as will be hereinafter fully shown and described.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents the frame of the machine, which frame may be constructedin any proper manner to receive and support the several parts of the machine.

O is a hopper, whichis madein square taper form. This hopperis attached to or suspended by pivots a a-to the sides of the frame A. The lower end of the hopper extends downward nearly to the surface of the ground, and the upper end extends some distance above the frame A, asclearly shown in Fig. 1.

Within the hopper 0 there is placed a cyl-' inder, D, the axis 1) of which works or is fitted in the sides of the hopper 0. One end of the axis 1) extends through the side of the hopper and has a pulley, 0, upon it, around which pulley a cross-belt, (1, passes, said belt also passing around a pulley, e, on the end of the roller B. The cylinderD extends the whole width of the hopper G, and has radial platesf attached to its periphery, said plates being placed on the cylinder in spiral rows. The plates f may be about one-third of an inch in length and project from the roller about three-eighths of an inch. The plates should be constructed of steel plate. The cylinder D may be of wood, and also the framing and hopper.

Within the hopper 0 there is attached a plate, E. The upper end of this plate is attached to the back side of the hopper O. The plate is equal in width to the hopper, and its lower end extends downward nearly to the cylinder D, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. The lower end of the plate E has notches a made in it to allow the platesf to pass through.

F is a set-screw, which passes through the back-side of the hopper. The inner end of this screw bears against the plate E.

To the front end of the frame A, and at its lower part, there is attachedafurrow-share, G; and H is a covering-share, which is attached to a transverse bar, I, on the lower part of the frame A, directly behind the hopper (3.

The cotton-seed is placed in the hopper O, and as the implement is drawn along the cylinder D will rotate in the direction indicated by the arrows. (See Fig. 1.) The platesf as the cylinder rotates draw the cottonseed around from above the cylinder, and it is dis charged from below the cylinder, the plates at front and back sides of the cylinder. Fig. 1, the cotton-seed being shown in red.) By turning the set-screw F the plate E may be adjusted farther in or out from the back side of the hopper O, and consequently more or less seed may be exposed to the action of the plates f, and the discharge of the seed may thmeforc be regulated as desired.

In case the belt 01, which drives the cylinder D from the roller B, becomes loose, it may be tightened by shoving forward the lower end of the hopper O, which, as it is suspended by the pivots a to the frame A, may be moved as stated and secured forward at any desired point by a rope or chain, g.

The office of the covering and furrow shares is well known, and they operate as usual.

I am aware that the tightening of belts by shifting the position of the belt-pulleys is a very old and well-known method, and I therefore disclaim it; but I am notaware thatscedhoppers have been arranged so that by tightening the hopper the belts which drive the seed-cylinder will be tightened.

I am also aware thatseed-planters furnished with projecting teeth upon their peripheries, like the cylinder D herein shown, are old and each side of the cylinder nearly. touching the (Seev well known. I therefore disclaim such oylinseed-cylinder D, in themanner and for the purders; but the combination of a plate, E, with poses set forth.

seed-cylinders I believe to be original. There JAS F ORR fore What I claim as new in cotton-seed planters, Witnesses:

and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is J As. H. THOMASON, j

Combining an adjustable plate, E, with the PRESSLEY N. HOWELL. 

